cyber frauds

As part of its attempt to curb the menace of fraud over spam calls or SMS or…

'CEO Scam': How scammers are duping start-up workers for money? Meesho employee shares ordealWith the development of technology and the ability to do everything with a single click, cyberfraud instances have increased over the past few years. Scammers will almost certainly use everything from sim cards to customer care services to lure victims into paying them money. Scammers have started cracking down on startup employees by impersonating the firm CEO due to the development of online platforms and increased accessibility…

To achieve an open, safe, trusted and accountable Internet, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology said new IT rules will help to accomplish the goal. Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Friday about the…

Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal has warned its customers against the increased number of cyber frauds in India due to a massive growth of online transactions amid the spread of COVID-19 cases. The executive emailed a letter to Airtel subscribers in India to inform them of the two major ways the fraudsters are targeting individuals these days. In one way, Vittal said that the fraudsters call customers pretending to be Airtel employees and dupe them. He added that in another way, cyber frauds are taking place while the customers…

NEW DELHI : India witnessed over 18 million cyber attacks and threats, at an average of nearly 200,000 threats every day, in the first three months of 2022, according to US-based cyber security firm, Norton. The company states in its Cyber Safety Pulse Report that the quarter spotted nearly 60,000 phishing attempts through this quarter, as well as over 30,000 tech support scams in this time. The company notes that deepfakes and cryptocurrency-related scams were among…